(25 Sep 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jiyyeh, Lebanon - 25 September 2024
1. Various of destruction
2. Various of Issam Abdallah, owner of car repair shop hit in strike walking amidst rubble
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Issam Abdallah, owner of car repair shop hit in strike:
“This is a civilian facility specialising in fixing cars. This facility started three or four years ago and it fixes car. Just that. We came at night and we saw that the facility was struck and they (Israel) said it's a weapons depot and that is not true. Maybe for the enemy, Israel finished the bank of targets and now wants to target civilian facilities.”
4. Various of destruction
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Bassam Oweidat, lost his car in Israeli strike:
“I came to get my Range Rover that I brought here to be fixed in this car repair shop at Jihad Abdallah (son of Issam Abdallah) since they are specialised in Range Rovers. This is what we know. The strike came and the Range Rover is in pieces as you can see. Every piece is in a (different) country (means widely scattered).”
6. Various of destruction
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike on a coastal village south of Beirut hit a warehouse destroying a car repair shop and several vehicles, according to Lebanese state media NNA.

No deaths or injuries were reported in the airstrike near the village of Jiyyeh, it said.

Issam Abdallah owns a car repair shop which was destroyed in the strike.

“We came at night and we saw that the facility was struck and they (Israel) said is a weapons depot and that is not true," he said.

An official with a Lebanese group, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media said the strike that occurred after midnight Tuesday was likely carried out by a warplane and not a drone because of the large damage it caused.

The sound of the powerful airstrike was heard in Beirut, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) to the north.

Bassam Oweidat, who lost his car in the strike, came to check on the site.

“I came to get my Range Rover that I brought here to be fixed in this car repair shop," he explained.

"The strike came and the Range Rover is in pieces as you can see. Every piece is in a (different) country,” he added.

AP Video shot by Mohammad Zanaty

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